The temperance movement, which advocates moderating or entirely abstaining
from alcohol, was popularised in Britain in the 19th century.

One of the first men to generate mass interest in abstinence from alcohol as Joseph Livesey, a local politician and newspaper owner in Preston in the 1830s.

Livesey started a popular temperance movement, attracting followers including John Turner, who coined the phrase "teetotal".

The movement led to the establishment of the British Association for the Promotion of Temperance in 1835, and temperance was soon adopted by working class movements fighting for the right to vote, who hoped abstinence would lend them an air of respectability.

Despite growing calls for temperance, Britain never implemented an American-style prohibition law, in part because temperance advocates believed abstinence should be based on moral values rather than fear of the law.

Attempts to limit Sunday opening hours and introduce full scale prohibition were drawn up by politicians in the 1850s but never made it through Parliament.

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Despite this setback a number of religious organisations continued to lobby politicians for restrictions or bans on the sale of alcohol.

The Quakers, the Salvation Army and the League of the Cross, a Catholic group calling for total abstinence, all sought to curb drinking in Britain in the 19th century and in 1884 the National Temperance Federation was founded in association with the Liberal Party.

The closest Britain came to prohibition was during the First World War, when pub hours became subject to licenses, the alcohol content of alcohol was reduced and tax on alcohol was raised.

Many breweries were also transformed into munitions factories and nationalised, limiting the supply of alcohol in Britain.

But the idea of prohibition never caught on, and many American advocates of anti-alcohol laws toured Britain between the World Wars to be met with open hostility.

Today there are few remaining relics of the temperance movement, though this could be set to change with one in six Britains claiming they do not touch alcohol.

The most famous example of the influence of temperance is Maine Road, the former Manchester City stadium.

It took its title from a road named after the 1953 American Maine Law, a statute that restricted the sale of alcohol in the state of Maine.